>From wininfo, but if I always have to prove something I say I am not going
to bother warning people on this list about anything. I have better things
to do than spend 20 minutes hunting down references.
http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=2867
Maxtor drives and Windows 2000 SP1: A deadly combination?
I've received numerous reports from people that Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
(SP1) and Maxtor hard drives (both SCSI and IDE, curiously) don't mix very
well, with bizarre side effects ranging from Windows reporting incorrect
drive sizes to actual data loss. I haven't been able to pin this one down as
easily as the ZoneAlarm/BlackICE issue, but I can at least tell you this: If
you use Maxtor drives and want to install SP1, make sure you at least enable
the "uninstall" option just in case.
Windows Media Player 7 and Adaptec EZ CD Creator 3.5 don't mix
And speaking of bizarre incompatibilities, here's one I've actually
experienced first hand on a system I recently built for my brother: Numerous
readers have written in with horror stories about installing WMP7 on a
Windows 2000 system, rebooting, and then being unable to get past the white
progress bar startup screen. The one common element in each case is a copy
of Adaptec EZ CD Creator 3.5 previously installed on the system. And the
news here is very, very bad: Everyone I know that's had this issue has
ultimately needed to completely wipe out Windows 2000 and reinstall: Safe
Mode, the Recovery Console, and the Setup Repair option do not work.
http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=2882
Adaptec/WMP7 problem not isolated to Easy CD Creator 3.5
If you've gotten any version of Adaptec Easy CD Creator to work on Windows
2000 with Windows Media Player 7, consider yourself lucky: I received
numerous emails from readers this week stating that the previously reported
problems are not isolated to Easy CD Creator 3.5. This isn't to say that
you're definitely going to have problems--it's sporadic like the SP1/Maxtor
drive issue I also mentioned last week--but many people have reported the
same problems with Easy CD 4.02 as well, for example. The key here,
apparently, is to install Easy CD Creator after WMP7: So if you've already
got it installed and want to use WMP7, uninstall the Adaptec software first,
then reinstall after WMP7 is up and running.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallendahl, Michael/SEA" <mwallend "at" ch2m.com>
To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:35
Subject: RE: Win 2000, Zone Alarm, Random Reboots and other goodies
> Jeff:
>> Please send us the link to page on MS's web site that describes this
problem
> with "data loss on Maxtor hard drives" and Windows 2000 SP1.
>> I spent time looking for this on MS's support site and did not come up
with
> a match. Nor on Maxtor's site.
>> I feel it almost irresponsible to make a statement of this sort on a major
> mailing list without providing a link with more information. Rumors get
> started this way.
>> Thanks,
>> -Mike
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeff [mailto:jeff "at" parlant.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:07 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject: Re: Win 2000, Zone Alarm, Random Reboots and other goodies
>>> This is one of the many known problem with sp1. Uninstall then reinstall
> the CD-writer software and it should fix it.
>> After hearing some of the problems with SP1, I was very glad I hadn't had
> time to install it on my servers. Especially the problem with data loss
on
> Maxtor hard drives. Only MS would screwup with that kind of crap.
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James ''Wez'' Weatherall" <jnw22 "at" cam.ac.uk>
> To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 04:04
> Subject: Re: Win 2000, Zone Alarm, Random Reboots and other goodies
>>> > > One other thing that I failed to add... I believe this problem cropped
> up
> > > when I installed SP1
> >
> > Which symptom - the reboots or the problem connecting?
> >
> > Interesting - I recently installed SP1 at home and it broke my CD-Writer
> > software.
> >
> > Perhaps we need to recommend that people stay SP-free...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James "Wez" Weatherall
> > --
> > "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment"
> > Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
> > AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK - Tel : 343000
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